By the Rev. J. E. Jackson. 



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Abought one or ij a clock in the morning ("i.e. of Tuesday the 

 12th Jan.") they were from thens convayed to a howseof his called 

 Bonham 1 two myles of, within a quarter of a myle of Sturtone 

 where my Lorde him self laye, where arryving the Tuesdaye 

 abought iij of the clocke in the morning they were layed fast 

 bounde in two severall places withowte meate or drincke, fyar, or 

 anny thing to lye uppon. Abought iiij of the clocke in the after- 

 noone my Lorde sent unto them two Justices of the peace to examyne 

 them, whome he made beleve he wolde the next morning send 

 them to the gaoule ; and to that ende he cawsed the said Justices 

 to put their handes to a mittimus. Assone as the Justices came 

 unto the howse, fynding them bounde, they caused them to bee 

 loosed, and advised my Lorde's men that kept them to suffer them 

 so to contynue, saying that ther was no dought of th'escaping of 

 them. 



But assone as the saide Justices were departed, my Lorde sent 

 first Saunder [Alexander] More and then Franck and fynally 

 Farre, being all three his men, to cawse them to be bounde agayne 

 and to bee layed in severall places, comaunding further all the 

 kepers to come awaye saving soch as he had especially appointed 

 for the murder which ensued, whome he had before procured to doo 

 th'acte, promising that they shoulde doo no more then he him selfe 

 would doo. Abought x of the clocke 2 my Lorde sent to Bonham 

 William Farre, Roger Grough, John Welshman and Macute Jacob, 

 comaunding them to fetche the saide Hertgilles to the place 

 appointed, uppon warninge them that in case by the waye the 

 saide Hertgilles uppon suspicion what was ment to them shoulde 

 make anny noyse, to rydde them of their lyves before the comyng- 

 of them to the saide place. The four above named, fynding at 



1 Bonham is the name of a Farm, in the parish of Stourton, south of the 

 village. It anciently belonged to a family of that name, but was bought by 

 the Lords Stourton, one of whom temp. Henry YIIL, built a house in a grove 

 on the hill. (Leland.) A Roman Catholic Chapel still the property of Lord 

 Stourton adjoins the farm. (Hoare, Mere 89.) It appears from the accounts 

 of Charles Lord Stourton's estate in 1549 that Nicholas Bonham, Esq., was then 

 the owner, but that Lord Stourton held it on a lease for years. 



2 At night. See the Latin Bill of Indictment, (No. 60). 



